Scientific staff

Felix Billeter, PhD, independent art historian in Munich, study in Vienna, Braunschweig,
Würzburg and Munich, dissertation on Flemish Baroque painting, project-related cooperation with museums
and private collectors, publications and editorships about art and collections of the 19th and 20th century.
Dr. Billeter has been head of the Hans Purrmann Archive since 2001 and has been significantly involved
in writing the catalogues raisonnés of the paintings (2004) and of the water colours and gouaches (2008).
You can contact him if you have questions about the life and work of Purrmann and if you would like
to make an appointment for expert reports or for visits to the Archive.

Lisa Kern-Hogen,
art historian in Munich, studied history of art, English literature, and history of Early Christian and
Byzantine art at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. She is writing her dissertation on the Dresden
artist Constantin von Mitschke-Collande (1884-1956). From 2007 until 2010, she worked for the
public relations department of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen for the Pinakothek Museums
in the Kunstareal München. Since 2010 she has been a scientific staff member of the Städtische
Galerie im Lenbachhaus München in the department art collection/archive/provenance research.
Since 2012 she has been working for the Hans Purrmann Archive.

Consultative

Christian Lenz, PhD, Dr. habil., professor for medieval and contemporary art history at the LMU Munich,
former state conservator of the Bavarian State Painting Collections Munich, expert on the 19th and early 20th century
of the Neue Pinakothek and head of the Max Beckmann Archive Munich. Publisher of the catalogue raisonné
of Hans Purrmann. Several publications on the art after the 16th century, especially art of the 19th
and 20th century.

Pia Dornacher, PhD, independent art historian, study in Munich, dissertation on Heimrad Prem (1934-1978),
independent exhibition curator Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Städt. Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, Museum Villa Stuck München,
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, catalogues raisonnés of Heimrad Prem, Lothar Fischer and Rupprecht Geiger,
publications on art after 1945, since 1999 she has had a teaching position at the LMU Munich, since 2004
she has had the artistic direction of the Museum Lothar Fischer Neumarkt i.d. OPf., member of the
board of the Lothar & Christel Fischer Foundation and the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Bildhauermuseen und
Skulpturensammlungen, since 2009 she has worked for the Hans Purrmann Archive.

Eva Fritz, M.A., independent art historian in Munich, studied ”Literature-Art-Media“ and administrative sciences at the
University of Konstanz, after that she completed the master degree course: “Aisthesis - Art and Literature Discourses from
a Historical Perspective” at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt,
Augsburg University, and Regensburg University.
From 2010 until 2012, she worked for the press and public relations department of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
for the Pinakothek Museums in the Kunstareal München. Since 2014 she has been working for Munich Re Art Collection,
and for the Hans Purrmann Archive.